My children are in their late 20s, and I’ll sit one on one with them and talk about very personal matters over drinks. I think that it’s very important-and I think Call Me by Your Name is itself a good example of this, even though it’s a piece of fiction-that parents should be very, very open with their children and allow the children to be very open with them. Obviously your father was a big influence, but you’re also a father to three sons. So much of your work is about parental relationships, and especially relationships between fathers and sons. My father was 93 when he died, and I think he still was very, very interested in women until that age, even though he had a touch of dementia already.
Maybe I should learn how to do that, but I still don’t know. You will notice that the father sounds like an adolescent sometimes, and it’s because I don’t know how to write old love. I was very interested in the father, and then of course in Elio and Oliver, and what happened to them and where their hearts really are in all three cases. About two years ago, I began to think very seriously and I just let myself go. So I jumped 20 years, and I’ve always wanted to go back to fill those intervening years, and the more time went by, the more it became daunting. I always felt that I had to finish Call Me by Your Name in great haste because I was doing another book. This is one of those things that I’ve tried many, many times to pick up. Vanity Fair: When did you decide you were going to write a follow-up to Call Me by Your Name?Īndré Aciman: I’ve always known. Here, he picks up the phone for a wide-ranging interview. In Find Me, Aciman digs even deeper into older iterations of the beloved pair (plus a long section focusing on the psyche of Elio’s father, a supporting player in the original book)-this time portraying love and desire primarily through lack, loss, and comparison.
Call Me by Your Name didn’t just encompass those fateful dog days, it ended with brief moments of reconnection the following winter, and then 15 and 20 years later. Now he’s done what he always planned to: picked the story back up. Aciman’s fan base grew, and there were immediate pleas for a sequel. A decade after the book’s release-during which Aciman wrote three more novels and an essay collection-the book received the Luca Guadagnino treatment, a celluloid pleasure-chest starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
In 2007, André Aciman released his debut novel, the rapturous, desire-drenched Call Me by Your Name, which follows teenage Elio and grad student Oliver over one formative summer in Italy.
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